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A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...
Clay bulla impressed with the seal of Barnamtarra, wife of Lugalanda, ensi (ruler) of Lagash. Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BC. Found in Telloh (ancient Girsu). Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal.
Bulla (amulet), given to boys in Ancient Rome Bulla (seal) , in archaeology, an inscribed clay or soft metal token used in ancient times for commercial or legal documentation Bulla Felix , an Italian bandit, fl. 205–207 AD
The seals can live for as many as 30 years in the wild, while dealing with predators like orcas and larger leopard seals. They survive on fish, squid, and other smaller prey to survive.
Bulla gouldiana, the California bubble, Gould's bubble or cloudy bubble snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Bullidae, the ...
Wildlife experts have said Spearmint the seal has come to rely on food from humans in Plymouth
King Ahaz's seal is a bulla (impressed piece of clay) originating from the 8th century BCE. The place of discovery of this seal is unknown, and it is currently part of Shlomo Moussaieff 's private collection.
Public documents, by contrast, were sealed by stamping a different papal seal onto lead which was attached to the document. Such documents were historically called papal bulls, named after the stamped bulla of lead. [3] Use of the Fisherman's Ring changed during the 15th century when it was used to seal official documents called papal briefs ...